Dissident Gets Prize In Protest

December 8, 1985|United Press International

OSLO, NORWAY — An alternative prize was awarded in absentia Saturday to Soviet dissident Anatoly Koryagin to protest the awarding of the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize to a member of the Soviet Communist Party.

The prize went to Soviet psychiatrist Koryagin, serving a labor term for refusing to declare dissidents insane.

The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the official $235,000 prize to International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. It will be received Tuesday by Soviet Dr. Yevgeny Chazov and U.S. physician Bernard Lown, presidents of the Boston-based group.

A spokesman said the selection of Chazov as co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ``is the most deplorable mistake ever made in the history of the Nobel Peace Prize`` because ``the IPPNW is a front organization for the Soviet Union.``